To comprehend all laws and attain immortality

In the blood-soaked stone chamber, Gu Fan sheathed his flying sword, and the Samadhi True Fire at his fingertips slowly dissipated.

Wang Zhengfeng was still hanging on the stone wall, his body covered with wounds and scorch marks, trembling slightly.

His bones weren't strong enough, much weaker than Gu Fan had anticipated.

Under simple torture and interrogation, Wang Zhengfeng revealed the information he knew.

"My ancestor had a fortuitous encounter in his early years and obtained a secret technique called 'Life-Buying Money' from an ancient cultivator's cave."

"This technique requires...money as a medium. Spirit stones from the cultivation world...or gold and silver from the mortal world. Activating the secret technique...allows the person holding the medium to...share the negative consequences borne by the one casting the spell."

"When the ancestor was forming his core... he was not confident, so he used a secret technique to transfer the consequences of the failed core formation to him."

"So... you chose mortals?" Gu Fan asked coldly.

"Yes...yes, if this technique were to use spirit stones as a medium...it would be too conspicuous, therefore...a mortal was chosen."

"Then how did you know about this?"

Wang Zhengfeng's lips twitched slightly: "Back then... the one in charge of this matter... was my father."

"He... lacked the aptitude for cultivation, so he took charge of managing the clan's affairs. I... have heard about that."

"A large-scale death of mortals, and no one in the Chen Kingdom noticed?"

"Ancestor... calculated that only... the lives of eight thousand mortals are needed... to help him form his core."

"Heh, what a lucrative deal," Gu Fan sneered.

The population of Chen Kingdom is over 100 million. If 8,000 people were to die separately, even if they died on the same day, cultivators would not pay attention, and mortals would not investigate.

In this way, the lives of eight thousand mortals can be exchanged for one Foundation Establishment cultivator to achieve the Golden Core stage.

However, the Wang family did not expect that the money to buy their lives would fall into the hands of Gu Fan of the Lingxiao Sect's lower branch, along with the trade between Chen and Wei.

"Fellow Daoist... I have already spoken, could you... let me leave?" Wang Zhengfeng pleaded, "I swear... I will definitely not retaliate against you... If you kill me, the Ancestor will also find out."

Gu Fan slowly revealed a slight smile.

Just as Wang Zhengfeng relaxed, the Earth Flame Wheel flashed, and a head fell to the ground, blood gushing out and staining the stone wall red.

Whether the Wang family patriarch could sense it or not, Gu Fan didn't care.

Although the six kingdoms will not easily start a war, they will not allow the Golden Elixir to run rampant.

In countries with which relations are relatively good, as long as they don't cause trouble within the sect, the sect won't bother to manage them.

However, if they appear in hostile countries, such as Wei, Wu, and Yan, they will be killed without exception once discovered.

Even if the Wang family patriarch had ten times the courage, he wouldn't dare to attack the Lingxiao Sect for revenge.

After Gu Fan forms his core...

"That's when I'll seek my revenge," Gu Fan muttered to himself, his eyes flashing with murderous intent.

Once he made up his mind, Gu Fan stepped forward and put away the Yin-Yang Twin Wheels and the Tortoise Shell Shield. Looking at the remnants of magical artifacts scattered all over the ground, he couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.

Wang Zhengfeng had used up all his magical artifacts, and there was nothing left in his storage bag, but he was pleasantly surprised to find a few herbs.

The short, stout youth's shield was also corroded by the black-robed man's snake venom, and the weapon he used for attack was a small hammer, which Gu Fan took into his possession.

In addition, there was a short dagger and a scale shield in front of the black-robed man. Although the spiritual light was dim, there were no signs of damage, which was obviously knocked down by Wang Zhengfeng with a copper coin.

Besides a few pills that glowed with blood-like energy, the storage bag contained several jade bottles.

The moment the bottle was opened, a strong, pungent smell of blood wafted out, even more foul than the blood flowing from the three people present. Combined with the black-robed man's snake-scale appearance, it wasn't hard to guess that the blood came from a demonic beast.

What Gu Fan regretted most was that copper coin that could knock down the magic weapon.

He also forced out information about the copper coin, which was called the Falling Treasure Copper Coin. It was obtained by the Wang family patriarch in the ancient cultivation cave. In addition to the secret technique of buying life money, he also obtained a talisman treasure.

"The last time the Luofu Immortal Sect appeared in the world was two hundred years ago, which coincides with the time when Xia Lingfeng obtained the White Jade Ring."

Gu Fan guessed that Xia Lingfeng confirmed the treasure's extraordinary nature by using the phantom of the Luofu Immortal Sect within the jade ring, but due to his Qi Refining cultivation level, he dared not enter the secret realm. Ultimately, the news leaked, and the Xia family was destroyed by the Wang family.

After annihilating the Xia family, the Wang family seized the Xia family's assets and used these resources to cultivate a Foundation Establishment cultivator, who was none other than the young Wang family patriarch, Wang Jingshuo.

After Wang Jingshuo was diagnosed with spiritual roots at a young age, he entered the Longya Academy. With the family's full support, he lived up to expectations and successfully cultivated to the Foundation Establishment stage. Later, he had the opportunity to enter an ancient cultivation cave and cultivated diligently for 170 years to become a Golden Core True Person.

After Wang Jingshuo became a Golden Core cultivator, the Wang family naturally rose to prominence. However, the Wang family's rise was too rapid and lacked foundation. All resources were concentrated on supporting Wang Jingshuo, resulting in a depleted foundation. This situation only improved after Wang Jingshuo achieved the Golden Core stage.

It was extremely difficult for the Wang family to cultivate two Foundation Establishment cultivators, so they valued them highly and distributed the treasured copper coins and talismans obtained from the ancient cultivation cave to the two of them.

This is the origin of the Treasure-Dropping Coin. The magical artifacts that are knocked down by it are not damaged, but are similar to being sealed. They can be restored by simply using the Treasure-Dropping Coin to break the seal.

However, the Luobao copper coin was split in two and was obviously unusable, so Gu Fan could only use his magic power to gradually wear away the seal.

"There's no rush to remove the seal; right now, we need to explore this palace as soon as possible." Gu Fan walked out of the stone chamber and looked at the stone chambers on both sides of the passageway with anticipation.

The battle just now consumed a lot of spirit talismans, and even the magic artifacts were sealed away. If he gained nothing, Gu Fan would definitely be frustrated.

And so, Gu Fan arrived at the center of the palace and began exploring from the outer stone chambers.

After circling around, Gu Fan's expression turned grim.

The doors to the stone chambers were all wide open, some bearing ancient sword and blade marks, clearly indicating that the secret realm had been looted when it was first opened.

Then, Gu Fan returned to the passageway and began searching the stone chambers on both sides one by one, but the more he looked, the more ashen his face became.

They walked all the way to the stone chamber at the end of the passage, but found nothing.

The gray rat seemed to sense Gu Fan's emotions and squeaked a few times.

Gu Fan reached into his arms and rubbed it a few times, which caused it to squeak and squeak. The little thing struggled and kicked its short legs, which finally made him feel a little better.

Just as he turned to leave, he suddenly sensed something was wrong and turned back to look at it again.

"Why is this stone chamber... smaller than the others?"

If he had found something in the previous stone chamber, he might have left right now, but having gained nothing, he was quite unwilling and instead hoped that this stone chamber would be different.

After comparing it with the other stone chambers, Gu Fan confirmed that the other stone chambers were all the same size, but this one was a quarter smaller. The wall on the smaller side was also different from the other stone walls, with uneven stone bricks.

A surge of hope welled up in his heart, and he stepped forward and began to tap on the stone wall.

"It's solid...this piece is solid too..."

Gu Fan tapped on all the bricks one by one, not even missing the ones in the corners, and found that they were all solid and did not react when pressed. The flame of hope that had just been lit was quietly extinguished again.

After frowning and pondering for a moment, Gu Fan focused his mind and activated his Myriad Manifestations Dharma Eye.

Then he was surprised to find that the uneven stone bricks on the stone wall formed a strange pattern, with four stone bricks showing light and flashing in turn.

"You need to tap these four stone bricks in sequence to open this stone wall!"

Gu Fan immediately understood and stepped forward to tap along the instructions of the Myriad Manifestations Eye.

There was no response after the first tap.

"No, it didn't start with this stone brick."

Gu Fan immediately replaced the stone brick and began to tap it one by one.

When the final strike landed, the entire stone wall shuddered violently and moved backward, revealing a stone staircase that disappeared into the ground.

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